World leaders in 2010
Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 2010, in the order they held them. Names are from Wikipedia’s list of state leaders and appear only where the person’s Wikidata record agrees on the post and the years. What happened in 2010 →
Major powers in 2010
United StatesUnited States history
- President
- Barack Obama
United KingdomUnited Kingdom history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister
- Gordon Brown, then David Cameron
RussiaRussia history
- President
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Prime minister
- Vladimir Putin
ChinaChina history
- General Secretary; paramount leader
- Hu Jintao
- President
- Hu Jintao
- Premier
- Wen Jiabao
FranceFrance history
- President
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Prime minister
- François Fillon
GermanyGermany history
- President
- Horst Köhler, then Christian Wulff
- Chancellor
- Angela Merkel
JapanJapan history
- Emperor
- Akihito
- Prime minister
- Yukio Hatoyama, then Naoto Kan
IndiaIndia history
- President
- Pratibha Patil
- Prime minister
- Manmohan Singh
Africa
AlgeriaAlgeria history
- President
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Prime Minister
- Ahmed Ouyahia
AngolaAngola history
- President
- José Eduardo dos Santos
- Prime minister
- Paulo Kassoma
BeninBenin history
- President
- Thomas Boni Yayi
BotswanaBotswana history
- President
- Ian Khama
Burkina FasoBurkina Faso history
- President
- Blaise Compaoré
- Prime minister
- Tertius Zongo
BurundiBurundi history
- President
- Pierre Nkurunziza
CameroonCameroon history
- President
- Paul Biya
- Prime minister
- Philémon Yang
Cape VerdeCape Verde history
- President
- Pedro Pires
- Prime minister
- José Maria Neves
Central African Republic
- President
- François Bozizé
- Prime minister
- Faustin-Archange Touadéra
ChadChad history
- President
- Idriss Déby
- Prime minister
- Youssouf Saleh Abbas, then Emmanuel Nadingar
Comoros
- President
- Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Democratic Republic of the CongoDemocratic Republic of the Congo history
- President
- Joseph Kabila
- Prime minister
- Adolphe Muzito
DjiboutiDjibouti history
- President
- Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
- Prime minister
- Dileita Mohamed Dileita
EgyptEgypt history
- President
- Hosni Mubarak
- Prime minister
- Ahmed Nazif
Equatorial Guinea
- President
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
- Prime minister
- Ignacio Milam Tang
EritreaEritrea history
- President
- Isaias Afwerki
EswatiniEswatini history
- King
- Mswati III
- Prime minister
- Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
EthiopiaEthiopia history
- President
- Girma Wolde-Giorgis
- Prime minister
- Meles Zenawi
GabonGabon history
- President
- Ali Bongo Ondimba
GambiaGambia history
- President
- Yahya Jammeh
GhanaGhana history
- President
- John Atta Mills
GuineaGuinea history
- Acting President
- Sékouba Konaté
- President
- Alpha Condé
- Prime minister
- Kabiné Komara, then Jean-Marie Doré, then Mohamed Said Fofana
Guinea-Bissau
- President
- Malam Bacai Sanhá
- Prime minister
- Carlos Gomes Júnior
High Transitional Authority: Madagascar
- President
- Andry Rajoelina
Ivory CoastIvory Coast history
- President
- Laurent Gbagbo, then Alassane Ouattara
- Prime minister
- Guillaume Soro
- disputed prime minister
- Gilbert Aké
KenyaKenya history
- President
- Mwai Kibaki
- Prime minister
- Raila Odinga
LesothoLesotho history
- King
- Letsie III
- Prime minister
- Pakalitha Mosisili
LiberiaLiberia history
- President
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Prime minister
- Baghdadi Mahmudi
Madagascar: Third Republic
- President of High Transitional Authority
- Andry Rajoelina
- Prime minister
- Albert Camille Vital
MalawiMalawi history
- President
- Bingu wa Mutharika
MaliMali history
- President
- Amadou Toumani Touré
- Prime minister
- Modibo Sidibé
MauritaniaMauritania history
- President
- Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
- Prime minister
- Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
MauritiusMauritius history
- President
- Anerood Jugnauth
- Prime minister
- Navin Ramgoolam
MoroccoMorocco history
- King
- Mohammed VI
- Prime Minister
- Abbas El Fassi
MozambiqueMozambique history
- President
- Armando Guebuza
- Prime minister
- Luísa Diogo, then Aires Ali
NamibiaNamibia history
- President
- Hifikepunye Pohamba
- Prime minister
- Nahas Angula
NigerNiger history
- President
- Mamadou Tandja
- Chairman of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy
- Salou Djibo
- Prime minister
- Ali Badjo Gamatié, then Mahamadou Danda
NigeriaNigeria history
- President
- Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, then Goodluck Jonathan
Republic of Somaliland
- President
- Dahir Riyale Kahin, then Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud
Republic of the CongoRepublic of the Congo history
- President
- Denis Sassou Nguesso
RwandaRwanda history
- President
- Paul Kagame
- Prime minister
- Bernard Makuza
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- President
- Mohamed Abdelaziz
- Prime Minister
- Abdelkader Taleb Omar
São Tomé and Príncipe
- President
- Fradique de Menezes
- Prime minister
- Joaquim Rafael Branco, then Patrice Trovoada
SenegalSenegal history
- President
- Abdoulaye Wade
- Prime minister
- Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye
Seychelles
- President
- James Michel
Sierra LeoneSierra Leone history
- President
- Ernest Bai Koroma
South AfricaSouth Africa history
- President
- Jacob Zuma
SudanSudan history
- President
- Omar al-Bashir
TanzaniaTanzania history
- President
- Jakaya Kikwete
- Prime minister
- Mizengo Pinda
TogoTogo history
- President
- Faure Gnassingbé
- Prime minister
- Gilbert Houngbo
Transitional Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia
- President
- Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
- Prime minister
- Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, then Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
- Acting Prime minister
- Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh
TunisiaTunisia history
- President
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Prime minister
- Mohamed Ghannouchi
Uganda
- President
- Yoweri Museveni
- Prime minister
- Apolo Nsibambi
ZambiaZambia history
- President
- Rupiah Banda
Zimbabwe
- President
- Robert Mugabe
- Prime minister
- Morgan Tsvangirai
Americas
Antigua and Barbuda
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Baldwin Spencer
ArgentinaArgentina history
- President
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
BahamasBahamas history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Hubert Ingraham
BarbadosBarbados history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- David Thompson, then Freundel Stuart
BelizeBelize history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Dean Barrow
BoliviaBolivia history
- President
- Evo Morales
BrazilBrazil history
- President
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
CanadaCanada history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Stephen Harper
ChileChile history
- President
- Michelle Bachelet, then Sebastián Piñera
ColombiaColombia history
- President
- Álvaro Uribe Vélez, then Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Costa RicaCosta Rica history
- President
- Óscar Arias, then Laura Chinchilla
CubaCuba history
- President of the State Council
- Raúl Castro
- President of the Council of Ministers
- Raúl Castro
Dominica
- President
- Nicholas Liverpool
- Prime minister
- Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican RepublicDominican Republic history
- President
- Leonel Fernández
EcuadorEcuador history
- President
- Rafael Correa
El SalvadorEl Salvador history
- President
- Mauricio Funes
Grenada
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Tillman Thomas
GuatemalaGuatemala history
- President
- Álvaro Colom
GuyanaGuyana history
- President
- Bharrat Jagdeo
- Prime minister
- Sam Hinds
HaitiHaiti history
- President
- René Préval
- Prime minister
- Jean-Max Bellerive
HondurasHonduras history
- Acting President
- Roberto Micheletti
- President
- Porfirio Lobo Sosa
JamaicaJamaica history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Bruce Golding
MexicoMexico history
- President
- Felipe Calderón
NicaraguaNicaragua history
- President
- Daniel Ortega
PanamaPanama history
- President
- Ricardo Martinelli
ParaguayParaguay history
- President
- Fernando Lugo
PeruPeru history
- Constitutional President
- Alan García Pérez
- Prime Minister
- Javier Velásquez, then José Antonio Chang
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Denzil Douglas
Saint Lucia
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Stephenson King
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
SurinameSuriname history
- President
- Ronald Venetiaan, then Dési Bouterse
Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago history
- President
- George Maxwell Richards
- Prime minister
- Patrick Manning, then Kamla Persad-Bissessar
United StatesUnited States history
- President
- Barack Obama
UruguayUruguay history
- President
- Tabaré Vázquez, then José Mujica
VenezuelaVenezuela history
- President
- Hugo Chávez
Asia
Afghanistan
- President
- Hamid Karzai
BahrainBahrain history
- Prime minister
- Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
BangladeshBangladesh history
- President
- Zillur Rahman
- Prime minister
- Sheikh Hasina
BhutanBhutan history
- Druk Gyalpo
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Prime minister
- Jigme Thinley
BruneiBrunei history
- Sultan
- Hassanal Bolkiah
Burma/Myanmar: State Peace and Development Council (1997–2011)
- Chairman
- Than Shwe
- Prime minister
- Thein Sein
CambodiaCambodia history
- King
- Norodom Sihamoni
- Prime minister
- Hun Sen
ChinaChina history
- General Secretary; paramount leader
- Hu Jintao
- President
- Hu Jintao
- Premier
- Wen Jiabao
CyprusCyprus history
- President
- Demetris Christofias
IndiaIndia history
- President
- Pratibha Patil
- Prime minister
- Manmohan Singh
IndonesiaIndonesia history
- President
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
IranIran history
- Supreme Leader
- Ali Khamenei
- President
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
IraqIraq history
- President
- Jalal Talabani
- Prime minister
- Nouri al-Maliki
IsraelIsrael history
- President
- Shimon Peres
- Prime minister
- Benjamin Netanyahu
JapanJapan history
- Emperor
- Akihito
- Prime minister
- Yukio Hatoyama, then Naoto Kan
JordanJordan history
- King
- Abdullah II
- Prime minister
- Samir Rifai
KazakhstanKazakhstan history
- President
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
KuwaitKuwait history
- Emir
- Sabah IV
- Prime minister
- Nasser Al-Mohammed
Kyrgyzstan
- President
- Kurmanbek Bakiyev, then Roza Otunbayeva
- Prime minister
- Daniar Usenov, then Almazbek Atambayev
LaosLaos history
- General Secretary
- Choummaly Sayasone
- President
- Choummaly Sayasone
- Prime minister
- Bouasone Bouphavanh, then Thongsing Thammavong
LebanonLebanon history
- President
- Michel Suleiman
- Prime minister
- Saad Hariri
MalaysiaMalaysia history
- Yang di-Pertuan Agong
- Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
- Prime minister
- Najib Razak
Maldives
- President
- Mohamed Nasheed
MongoliaMongolia history
- President
- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
- Prime minister
- Sükhbaataryn Batbold
NepalNepal history
- President
- Ram Baran Yadav
- Prime minister
- Madhav Kumar Nepal
North KoreaNorth Korea history
- General Secretary
- Kim Jong-il
- Premier
- Kim Yong-il, then Choe Yong-rim
Northern Cyprus
- President
- Mehmet Ali Talat, then Derviş Eroğlu
- Prime minister
- İrsen Küçük
- acting Prime minister
- Hüseyin Özgürgün
OmanOman history
- Sultan
- Qaboos bin Said
PakistanPakistan history
- President
- Asif Ali Zardari
- Prime minister
- Yousaf Raza Gillani
PhilippinesPhilippines history
- President
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, then Benigno Aquino III
QatarQatar history
- Prime minister
- Hamad bin Jassim
Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history
- King
- Abdullah
SingaporeSingapore history
- President
- S. R. Nathan
- Prime minister
- Lee Hsien Loong
South KoreaSouth Korea history
- President
- Lee Myung-bak
- Prime minister
- Chung Un-chan, then Kim Hwang-sik
- Acting Prime minister
- Yoon Jeung-hyun
Sri LankaSri Lanka history
- President
- Mahinda Rajapaksa
- Prime minister
- Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, then D. M. Jayaratne
State of Palestine
- President
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Prime minister
- Salam Fayyad
Syria
- President
- Bashar al-Assad
- Prime minister
- Muhammad Naji al-Otari
TaiwanTaiwan history
- President
- Ma Ying-jeou
- Premier
- Wu Den-yih
TajikistanTajikistan history
- President
- Emomali Rahmon
- Prime minister
- Oqil Oqilov
ThailandThailand history
- Prime minister
- Abhisit Vejjajiva
Timor-Leste
- President
- José Ramos-Horta
- Prime minister
- Xanana Gusmão
TurkeyTurkey history
- President
- Abdullah Gül
- Prime minister
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkmenistan
- President
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates history
- President
- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Prime minister
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
UzbekistanUzbekistan history
- President
- Islam Karimov
- Prime minister
- Shavkat Mirziyoyev
VietnamVietnam history
- General Secretary
- Nông Đức Mạnh
- President
- Nguyễn Minh Triết
- Prime minister
- Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
YemenYemen history
- Prime minister
- Ali Muhammad Mujawar
Europe
Abkhazia
- President
- Sergei Bagapsh
- Prime minister
- Alexander Ankvab, then Sergei Shamba
AlbaniaAlbania history
- President
- Bamir Topi
- Prime minister
- Sali Berisha
Andorra
- Episcopal Co-Prince
- Joan Enric Vives Sicília
- French Co-Prince
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Prime minister
- Jaume Bartumeu
ArmeniaArmenia history
- President
- Serzh Sargsyan
- Prime minister
- Tigran Sargsyan
AustriaAustria history
- President
- Heinz Fischer
- Chancellor
- Werner Faymann
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan history
- President
- Ilham Aliyev
- Prime minister
- Artur Rasizade
BelarusBelarus history
- President
- Alexander Lukashenko
- Prime minister
- Sergei Sidorsky, then Mikhail Myasnikovich
BelgiumBelgium history
- King
- Albert II
- Prime minister
- Yves Leterme
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina history
- High Representative
- Valentin Inzko
- Chairman
- Nikola Špirić, then Željko Komšić, then Haris Silajdžić, then Nebojša Radmanović
- Member
- Haris Silajdžić, then Željko Komšić, then Nebojša Radmanović, then Bakir Izetbegović
BulgariaBulgaria history
- President
- Georgi Parvanov
- Prime minister
- Boyko Borisov
CroatiaCroatia history
- President
- Stjepan Mesić, then Ivo Josipović
- Prime minister
- Jadranka Kosor
Czech RepublicCzech Republic history
- President
- Václav Klaus
- Prime Minister
- Jan Fischer, then Petr Nečas
DenmarkDenmark history
- Queen
- Margrethe II
- Prime minister
- Lars Løkke Rasmussen
EstoniaEstonia history
- President
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves
FinlandFinland history
- President
- Tarja Halonen
- Prime minister
- Matti Vanhanen, then Mari Kiviniemi
France: Fifth RepublicFrance history
- President
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Prime minister
- François Fillon
Georgia
- President
- Mikheil Saakashvili
- Prime minister
- Nika Gilauri
GermanyGermany history
- President
- Horst Köhler, then Christian Wulff
- Chancellor
- Angela Merkel
GreeceGreece history
- President
- Karolos Papoulias
- Prime minister
- George Papandreou
HungaryHungary history
- President
- László Sólyom, then Pál Schmitt
- Prime minister
- Gordon Bajnai, then Viktor Orbán
IcelandIceland history
- President
- Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
- Prime minister
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
ItalyItaly history
- President
- Giorgio Napolitano
- Prime minister
- Silvio Berlusconi
LatviaLatvia history
- President
- Valdis Zatlers
- Prime minister
- Valdis Dombrovskis
Liechtenstein
- Prince
- Hans-Adam II
- Prime minister
- Klaus Tschütscher
LithuaniaLithuania history
- President
- Dalia Grybauskaitė
- Prime minister
- Andrius Kubilius
LuxembourgLuxembourg history
- Grand Duke
- Henri
- Prime minister
- Jean-Claude Juncker
MaltaMalta history
- President
- George Abela
- Prime minister
- Lawrence Gonzi
MoldovaMoldova history
- Acting President
- Mihai Ghimpu, then Vlad Filat, then Marian Lupu
- Prime minister
- Vlad Filat
Monaco
- Prince
- Albert II
- Minister of state
- Jean-Paul Proust, then Michel Roger
MontenegroMontenegro history
- President
- Filip Vujanović
- Prime minister
- Milo Đukanović, then Igor Lukšić
North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia history
- President
- Gjorge Ivanov
- Prime minister
- Nikola Gruevski
NorwayNorway history
- King
- Harald V
- Prime minister
- Jens Stoltenberg
PolandPoland history
- President
- Lech Kaczyński, then Bronisław Komorowski
- Acting President
- Bronisław Komorowski, then Bogdan Borusewicz, then Grzegorz Schetyna
- Prime minister
- Donald Tusk
PortugalPortugal history
- President
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva
- Prime minister
- José Sócrates
Republic of Artsakh
- President
- Bako Sahakyan
- President of the National Assembly
- Ashot Ghulian
Republic of Ireland
- President
- Mary McAleese
- Taoiseach
- Brian Cowen
Republic of KosovoKosovo history
- President
- Fatmir Sejdiu
- Acting President
- Jakup Krasniqi
- Prime minister
- Hashim Thaçi
RomaniaRomania history
- Prime minister
- Emil Boc
RussiaRussia history
- President
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Prime minister
- Vladimir Putin
San Marino
- Captains Regent
- Stefano Palmieri, then Francesco Mussoni, then Marco Conti, then Glauco Sansovini, then Giovanni Francesco Ugolini, then Andrea Zafferani
SerbiaSerbia history
- President
- Boris Tadić
- Prime minister
- Mirko Cvetković
SlovakiaSlovakia history
- President
- Ivan Gašparovič
- Prime minister
- Robert Fico, then Iveta Radičová
SloveniaSlovenia history
- President
- Danilo Türk
- Prime minister
- Borut Pahor
South Ossetia
- President
- Eduard Kokoity
- Prime minister
- Vadim Brovtsev
SpainSpain history
- King
- Juan Carlos I
- Prime minister
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
SwedenSweden history
- King
- Carl XVI Gustaf
- Prime minister
- Fredrik Reinfeldt
SwitzerlandSwitzerland history
- President of the Confederation
- Doris Leuthard
The Netherlands
- Queen
- Beatrix
- Prime minister
- Jan Peter Balkenende, then Mark Rutte
Transnistria
- President
- Igor Smirnov
UkraineUkraine history
- President
- Viktor Yushchenko, then Viktor Yanukovych
- Prime minister
- Yulia Tymoshenko, then Mykola Azarov
- Acting Prime minister
- Oleksandr Turchynov
UN-administered Kosovo
- President
- Fatmir Sejdiu
United KingdomUnited Kingdom history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister
- Gordon Brown, then David Cameron
Vatican City
- Sovereign
- Benedict XVI
Oceania
AustraliaAustralia history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Kevin Rudd, then Julia Gillard
Cook Islands, state in free association
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
Federated States of Micronesia
- President
- Manny Mori
FijiFiji history
- President
- Epeli Nailatikau
- Acting Prime minister
- Frank Bainimarama
Kiribati
- President
- Anote Tong
Marshall Islands
- President
- Jurelang Zedkaia
Nauru
- President
- Marcus Stephen
New ZealandNew Zealand history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- John Key
Palau
- President
- Johnson Toribiong
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Michael Somare
- Acting Prime minister
- Sam Abal
SamoaSamoa history
- O le Ao o le Malo
- Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi
- Prime minister
- Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands history
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Danny Philip
TongaTonga history
- King
- George Tupou V
- Prime minister
- Feleti Sevele, then Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō
Tuvalu
- Queen
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Apisai Ielemia, then Maatia Toafa, then Willy Telavi
VanuatuVanuatu history
- President
- Iolu Abil
- Prime minister
- Sato Kilman